A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
Goodness, I’ve been neglectful of this blog. I have a problem, and I’m hoping you all can help me. Almost five years ago, I left my BlogEngine.net-based blog at http://nickhodges.com/ and moved my blog to here. I have a lot of content there, and a lot of links that still get viewed. I’d like to…
I’m sure you’ve heard by now, but Embacadero has released a Community Edition of Delphi and C++Builder. I have a few thoughts on the matter It looks like they are doing things right, making the Community Edition (basically) a non-commercial Professional version, with everything included. Well done. While a long time in coming, it’s a…
Hey, we have a hotfix available for RAD Studio. It can be found on Code Central. It focuses on some issues in the tool chain. Given that it’s a hotfix, it only replaces a few choice files and doesn’t require an uninstall/reinstall process. Thanks to everyone who filled out the RAD Studio survey. We had…
Delphi for Linux is soon to be here. We’ve unleashed the Beta Bloggers, so keep an eye out for more information coming from any number of sources. Thanks to all of you who have bought my new book, Dependency Injection in Delphi. I’m grateful for all the support. My wife is working on the cover…
I can’t seem to find a WordPress theme that I like. Look for the theme to change a bunch while I play around with different ones. I’ve started a new blog over on the Embarcadero Community site. It will be for more “official” stuff that I post about. You can follow me there as well…
The Starter Version of Delphi is currently 100% off. I.e. Free as in beer. “The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourselves in code.” – Uncle Bob Martin I continue working hard on my materials for Delphi Developer Days. If you haven’t signed up yet, do it. I’m really…
I put up a poll on Google Plus asking what the greatest all time Delphi freeware/open source plugin/framework was. Thought you might like to vote. Work continues apace as we continue to prepare for Delphi Developer Days. I’m happy to say that there will be six folks attending in Baltimore from my employer, Gateway Ticketing. …
Signups are open for Delphi Developer Days. Remember, the “Very Early Bird” special price ends on August 12, so start planning now. I love presenting and hanging out with Delphi developers, so I hope you’ll be at one of the events. Should be a very fun time all around. And of course, if your company…
I’d like to offer my public and profuse thanks to the Danish Delphi Developers group – and most notably MVP Jens Fudge and his family – for their wonderful hospitality while I was in Denmark presenting at the DAPUG group. I talked for two days and had a great time. They were also kind enough…
Been a while, eh? Obviously the biggest news to cover is the Idera acquisition. By now I’m sure you all are aware that Idera Software has acquired Embarcadero. (It always seems strange to me when a smaller company bys a bigger one, but never mind….) They’ve done an interesting thing. They’ve taken the Embarcadero database…